Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA)
and
VMU Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL)
invite you to participate in
the 9th LKPA and the 3rd VMU IFL international scientific conference

Sustainable Multilingualism: Language, Culture And Society

Kaunas
29-30 May 2015

The aim of the conference is to assemble general and higher education language professionals, researchers, experts, politicians and other stakeholders to discuss innovations in the field of sustainable multilingualism development in the society, language didactics and intercultural communication development.

The DIV.ED project was presented during the national event dedicated to the European Day of Languages. The traditional public event, held on the 26th of September 2014 in the courtyard of the Teachers’ House, was organised by the Public Service Language Centre in cooperation with the cultural centres and the Embassies of over dozen states. At the stand of the Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association the visitors could look at the DIV.ED dissemination materials and get additional information about the DIV.ED products and their applicability presented by Lidija Sipeliene-Valiene, project administrator, Olga Medvedeva, DIV.ED coordinator in Lithuania, Inga Rozgiene, the Lithuanian translator of the  DIV.ED module, Egle Sleinotiene, LKPA president.

On 9-10 June, 2014 The Eighth International Conference of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania “The Modernization of Language Teaching and Learning in Europe: Variety, Quality, the Importance to Mobility and Work” was held. The conference participants were greeted by Algirdas Sysas, Deputy Seimas Speaker; Dr. Remigijus Motuzas, First Deputy Chancellor of the Lithuanian Government; Genoveita Krasauskienė, Vice-minister of the Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania; J. E. Miguel Arias Estevez, Spain’s ambassador to Lithuania; academician Algirdas Gaižutis, the Rector of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences; Frédéric BELLIDO, Conseiller de Coopération et d’Action culturelle de l’Ambassade de Franceen Lituanie, Directeur de l’Institut français de Lituanie; Sarah Talalay, the representative of the USA embassy; Dr. Gintautas Bražiūnas, the Director of Vilnius University of Applied Sciences.

Interesting plenary papers were read by Daiva Vaišnienė, The Chairperson of the Lithuanian State Language Commission; Christel Schneider from Germany; Silvija Karklina from Latvia; Tadas Vizgirda, the President of The American Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania; Vilma Bačkiūtė from Lithuania; Teri McCarthy from the USA; Iveta Vitola from Latvia; Luc Aubry from France; Pat William-Boyd from the USA; Andžej Račkovski from Lithuania; Ton Koenraad from the Netherlands; and Daiva Malinauskienė from Lithuania.

The discussion “The Modernization of Language Teaching and Learning”, moderated by Eglė Šleinotienė, the President of LKPA, and Silvija Karklina, received a lot of attention from the conference participants. Apart from the already mentioned professionals, Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick from Trinidad and Tabago; Linas Selmistraitis from Lithuania; Pat Williams-Boyd from the USA, Danutė Rasimavičienė from Lithuania; Zita Tarvydienė from Lithuania and Jane Preston from the USA also took part in the discussion.

On the second day of the conference 18 professionals read their papers; 14 poster presentations were presented. The conference was positively evaluated in the Lithuanian media: http://www.penki.lt/lt/Naujienos-per-Penki-TV.video?id=253380&p=1

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Conference proceedings

Conference moments

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